Word: strenuous
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Breaking the cup record enroute, the Harvard lightweight crew won the famed Thames Challenge Cup Saturday at the annual Henley Regatta, following four days of strenuous competition. The regatta, held on the Thames about 40 miles from London, is often regarded as the World Series of rowing...
...four-day airborne invasion of Texas, the Dakotas and Missouri, winding up last week in St. Louis, Vice President Richard Nixon flashed a preview of the intensive, fast-paced campaign he plans to undertake in mid-September. It was a strenuous sample: 18 speeches in six cities, mercilessly crowded schedules, jostling crowds, exploding flashbulbs, endless lines of hands to be shaken. In Minot, N, Dak., trapped on an auditorium stage, he even bowed gracefully to that inescapable insigne of presidential candidates, an Indian war bonnet. Seasoned Campaigner Nixon liked what he heard and saw. The crowds were bigger and more...
Died. Eleanor Butler Alexander Roosevelt, 71, widow of Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; of a stroke; in Oyster Bay, N.Y. Personification of the "strenuous life" advocated by her famed father-in-law, Mrs. Roosevelt was a dedicated service worker in Europe during both World Wars, a vigorous campaigner in her husband's races for public office, a gracious Governor's lady during his terms in Puerto Rico and the Philippines, and in her 1959 memoirs, Day Before Yesterday, an able chronicler of their life together...
...typically strenuous weeks, Herbert Hoover (whose secretary, explaining his pace, can only say: "He doesn't know he's 85") conferred with his old friend, No. 1 G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, who is no kin, about Manhattan's projected Herbert Hoover Building, new national headquarters of Boys' Clubs of America. Both Hoovers are on its national board, Herbert Hoover its chairman for the past 25 years. Day before the meeting, ex-President Hoover popped up by surprise at a lively Stanford University alumni luncheon in Manhattan. Hoover, a member of Stanford's first graduating...
...Theory Proved. Against all odds, young Cousteau became a powerful swimmer. For six years he suffered from chronic enteritis; in his early teens he contracted anemia, and doctors advised him to avoid all strenuous activity. He also developed a technical flair that produced a three-foot, battery-powered automobile and home movies at the age of 13. But studies were a bore until Jacques, a sophomore in a French lycée, found a novel use for his school. Demonstrating his theory that a strongly thrown stone makes only a small hole in glass, he broke 17 of the building...